Chapter 116: “Do you want to take the night off?”
The two of them continued to hear from a few more collaborators.
It seems that a large percentage of NPCs in the city know about the destruction of Hiers, although not all of them seem to know about it.
The percentage, or rather the variation in the number of people who know about it, gives the impression that it was spread by word of mouth rather than by an announcement or a warning.
“If someone was trying to spread the rumor, I guess that means they used a large number of NPCs as cherry-pickers.”
“Well, that might be the case, but this city is not exactly in the middle of nowhere, is it? The city is not a frontier city. There are fields of something outside the city, barley maybe? There are fields, people dressed like merchants and many horse-drawn wagons, so it’s probably a prosperous city in terms of agriculture and commerce.
If that’s the case, I think someone who knows the economic flow of the town well could aim for the greatest possible spread with the least amount of arrangements.”
Blanc told me this, and I looked around the town again. I hadn’t paid attention to it because I was only looking at characters who seemed easy to kidnap, but Blanc is right, it certainly seems to be the kind of city that tends to do that.
“…Amazing. Blanc, you’re amazing! You’re lying about not being smart! Your eye for detail and your knowledge is amazing! I’ve never seen actual barley growing before, and I wouldn’t have recognized it if you hadn’t told me!”
“No, I’d say it’s more like 70% what I’ve heard. My kids are smart. They teach me all kinds of things.”